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Published on: February 23, 2015
HSP70 alleviates spinal cord injury by activating the NF-kB pathway
Bingqiang Xu1, Jun Wang2, Shizhang Liu1
1Shaanxi Provincial People's Hospital, Xi'an, China.
Objectives:
Spinal cord injury (SCI) is an acute traumatic lesion of neurons in the spinal cord which has a high prevalence in the world, and has no effective surgical treatment. HSP70 is a molecular chaperone protein, serves a protective role in several different models of nervous system injury. The aim of the present study was to investigate the anti-inflammatory role of HSP70 in spinal cord injury and explore its mechanism.
Methods:
In vivo and in vitro models were constructed to mimic SCI. The Basso Mouse Scale (BMS) was applied to assess SCI degrees of the mouse model. Immunofluorescence (IF) was used for visualizing HSP70 and Iba1 in the spinal cord. Western blot assay was employed to quantify HSP70 and p65, and ELISA was for IL-1β and TNF-α.
Results:
The results showed that HSP70 expression decreased after SCI. HSP70 and Iba1 showed a decrease of co-localization in SCI mice. Further studies revealed that p65 was upregulated during the process of SCI. Overexpression of HSP70 inhibited the expression of p65 both in vitro and in vivo, and promoted the recovery of SCI mice.
Conclusions:
HSP70 was involved in the pathological process of spinal cord injury, HSP70 alleviated the spinal cord injury via inhibiting NF-κB signaling pathway.
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